You should write a book about your adventures! I would love to have seen those dogs rounding up all the horses. Dogs are so funny, and I adore mine. We’ve never had any that didn’t have quite a personality, but then I think a lot of that depends on teh owner and interaction.
For a long time, NC was the top gold producing state that sent gold back to the old world. Hard to believe. We also have quite a history of producing top quality mica. History is so cool, and I’ll never get to read half the books on the subject taht I want to!
We have more copperheads here than rattlers. We do have one weed, long seed pods like a skinny bean—when it dries and you brush against it, it sounds exactly like a rattler. I was out with the dogs one winter day and did. I was three feet in the air and six sideways before I realized what it was. The dogs were all looking at me like I’d lost my mind. I laughed til I almost wet my pants.
I was raised reading Zane Gray and Lois L’Amour. Recently got my hands on a copy of LL autobiography. Fascinating. It was well written, like sitting down and talking to him. If they’d let school kids read stuff like that instead of the garbage tehy force on them, we’d have a lot more avid readers.
Have a great day, Granny! I always enjoy talking with you.
Have a great day, Granny! I always enjoy talking with you.<<<
Thank you and I wish you a special day also.
Prospectors say “Gold is where you find it!!!”
Keep looking, you will find it.
There are pocket of gold to be found, as if God put them there as an emergency supply.
I can show you near Quartzite/Brenda Arizona, vugs on the sides of mountains, about the size of a washing machine or two, that the Arizona mining books say were full of almost pure gold, while the surrounding areas are poor mining.
There is said to be a fairly deep, hand dug welll out of Wellton, that a hundred years ago, a man hired small boys to go down and collect the nuggets off the bottom.
I - 8 out of Yuma, is paved with the ore from a hillside area that is said to contain oat shaped/sized nuggets of gold.
So keep looking, it is out there.
The only claim that I ever drooled over, is one that a man has or turquoise that is veined with a red agate..........you have to see it, to understand its beauty.
When we found it, he was doing his assessment work and had part of the vein exposed, the hole was 15 or so foot deep and maybe 10 foot wide, and beautiful.
At Searchlight Nevada, there is a vein of turquoise that has natural gold in it, you have to see it after it is polished to fully understand its beauty.
No, I won’t be writing a book, I waited too long, and all I have done is lead the life that was dealt to me.
Imagine a real pioneer, with a wagon, headed for the gold fields and a dream that was beyond most of our imagination.
I could never get into the Zane Gray books, have read several.
If you want real adventure stories, read Earle Stanley Gardner, LOL, not the Perry Mason but the few that were non fiction.
“Hovering over Baja” is one that I recall the title of.
Earle was one of the first treasure hunters to use a helicopter to go treasure hunting.
And see if the library can find a copy of “Gold on the Desert” by a lady named Smith.
I have been to her mine and looked at it from miles away, from my place in Wellton.
My friend Mary Rohrbaugh’s husband, did some of the Caterpillar work on the mine, before the depression and she gave me Jays work journal for his work on the Betty Lee mine.
The book is as close to true as one can write a book and all that she talks of, is there to see.